West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-10-21

a fat man he takes heavy razor
with a wide edge and mows the beard
off.
"Boys are not easy TO shave we'll.
The hair on their face has no
strength, and the razor glides over
it without taking it of, or the barber
leaves patches which he doesn't no
tice. The Sharper razor is the
worse it is to shave fuzz with it. 1t
takes some time for the fuzz to
toughen, and until it toughens and
has some resistance to it the barber
is bothered in shaving. 1t is not so
much the strength of the beard that
causes trouble in shaving as it is the
tenderness Of the skin. The skin OF
boys and young men is more tender
than the skin of older men. That
makes the barber take more care to
avoid cutting through. A tough
beard on a tough face is not so bad
as an easy beard on a tender face.
"Red boards are the worst. | do
not mean auburn boards { l have an
auburn beard myself) but those red
boards that grow out like wire and
have skin under them. There are
black boards that are as tough as
those wiry red ones, but man with
tough black beard usually has a
tough skin, and you can NOW the
hair off him, while red-headed men
have cranky skins. 1t is better to
have the same barber shave
you, on account of the peculiarities
of hair and skin that every man has.
The hair of the face does not grow
in an even grain, and no barber who
shayes the first time will take it just
right. you have a tough skin i'm
proper shaving will not matter so
much; but if your skin is tender lit
tie pimples will break out where the
razor went the wrong way. Then a
barber becomes acquainted with the
soft and hard spots of your face and
makes allowances. 1t is better to
have fairly good barber shave you
steadily than to change around
among the best.
Curly hair is easier to cut than
straight hair, because it is softer
The softer and finer hair is the less
work it is to cut it. Most people
think that curly hair is hard to cut,
but that depends on the toughness
of it. Some hair is so tough that it
blunts the scissors. The oftener
hair is cut the harder it is to cut it.
Black or red hair is the hardest to
cut. as the ha;r is stronger. Fair,
curly hair is easiest 1t is Il great
deal with hair-cutting as with shay
inc. The barber who knows about
you will give you better satisfaction
than the barber who doesn't.
There is one thing about BARRIERS
that | have often wondered over.
There are more bald BARRIERS in pro-
portion than there are bald men in
any other business. l do not know
why BARRIERS become bald. Perhaps
it is worry, or, more likely, it is
thought. BARRIERS are great think
ers. The toll ut shaving or cutting
hair is. to Il certain extent, mechan
ical, and it leaves the mind free.
That may account for the number Of
bald BARRIERS, but l have never been
able quite to explain it. BARRIERS
used to wear their hair long and
take great care in having each lock
oiled and carefully curled, but only
some of the old-time BARRIERS do that
now. The new BARRIERS have become
dandies, and veal their hair short
They are too careful about their per-
sonal appearance.
preachers take more care of their
hair than anybody else, and none of
them wear long hair. They have
all kinds of boards and hair, just as
other men, but they arrange their
hair and boards differently. Now,
there isn't any man that | would
rather have shaved than Henry Ward
Beecher. He had Il nice, fat, easy
face. But Talmage-well, he's too
thin in the face, and his lower jaw is
not smooth enough. There are an
giles in the jawbones, and I'd be
afraid to scrape the skin off one OF
them. Catholic priests are seldom
bald, especially the priests who have
their tonsures shaved. That pre-
serves the hair on the top of the
head. Protestant preachers usually
wear long hair. AS 4 class their
hair is longest.
doctors are careful of their hair,
but many of them grow bald or gray.
| have a theory that grayness is
caused by the loss of lime and iron
in the system, and doctors must lose
their line and iron qnicker than
preachers. Some doctors think it
helps them in their practice if they
grow gray young,
Brokers build a lot on their per-
sonal appearance, but they do not
paw sufficient attention to their hair.
They put it off on their BARRIERS in
stead of looking after their hair
themselves. A man must brush his
hair often if he wants it to look
/ right. A broker goes to a barber